I have been waiting such a long time before I finally painted my nails with this thermal polish from FUN Lacquer. Why did I wait so long? This is my new favorite thermal nail polish! If you don't already have FUN Lacquer polishes it's time to get some! The customer service is great, too.

Sandcastle from the Four Seasons Collection is a sheer milky white when warm (not flattering for my skin at all) and a bright orange when cold. The polish has tons of golden glassflecks. Because I knew that thermal polishes have a rather tough formula I added a few drops of nail polish thinner. Working was easier then. But the formula is a little tricky. I applied two coats and two coats of top coat (one is enough, too). Durability is great. After three days the polish looked almost like new.

The color change is stunning and happens all day long. Most of the time my nails looked like gradient nails, mandarine with bright orange tips. My colleagues were thrilled when they noticed what my nail polish was capeable of. We had lots of fun with a hot cup of coffee :-)

I got crazy and put all my objections aside and created a wild dotticure on my nails! For this look I used 15 different Essie nail polishes!!! Some of the polishes are: Fiji, Find Me An Oasis, Sunday Funday, Naughty Nautical, Shake Your $$ Makers, Style Hunter, After School Boy Blazer and many more.

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

Last year I slowly learned to love orange nail polishes and Zoya Thandie was my first orange purchase. Thandie is still my all-time favorite orange polish. Bright, creamy and great quality. The color is most acurate in the sun picture.

Thandie is opaque in one neat coat. The formula is perfect-perfect-perfect! In the bottle you can see a nice shimmer but on the nails you can only see it with a microscope. The polish dries quickly and looks neat and pretty for three full days.

KIKO 340 Light Blue has been in my collection for a while but I have only used it for my toe nails. But it's such a wonderful color for summer!

Light Blue is not a pure light blue - thanks for the wonderful matching name, KIKO - but has a hint of turquoise that makes it very bright. Even though this polish is rather old the formula is still great beside being a little thick. This polish can be opaque in one coat. I applied two coats out of routine.

It's vacation time! And I have been thinking for a while if and with which nail polish I should paint my nails for vacation. Usually a nail polish lasts only 2-3 days on my nails. On the third day I have a lot of chipping on the side of the nail tips. When that happens I no longer like my manicure and want to remove it. On vacation I do not want to paint my nails new every few days but I want to get to know the place I visit and enjoy my time there.

The Gel Nail Polishes can be worn over any base coat and do not need UV light. This polish has only the durabilty of gel nail polish but it doesn't look like thick coats of gel nail polish on the nails but is rather thin.

10 different colors are available and I chose Coral Crush. Applying this nail polish is very easy: Apply two coats of polish, let it dry for 3 minutes, apply top coat. I waited longer between the coats than 3 minutes. I also applied a base coat which is recommended. At first I was shocked about the very wide brush of the ISADORA polish. But surprisingly application was pretty easy with it.

Coral Crush is very highly pigmented and the first coat of this color is opaque. But the color is not coral but rather a pinkish red on my nails. The polish has a great formula (like OPI) and feels like gum when dry. This gum-like formula makes the polish very durable and shook proof.

The Gel Nail Lacquer Top Coat is a little harder to apply because it is rather tough. Most top coats are very thin when new and get thicker after a few weeks of use. But this top coat is rather thick from the beginning and has to be applied carefully and thin. I applied a rather thick coat and had a little tip wear on day 1 because of shrinking.

The durability is stunning. I wore this nail polish for 5 days and it almost looked like new. I had only slight tip wear and no chipping at all! The polish was still very shiny and I only removed it because I wanted to wear another color.

I am still wearing this polish on my toe nails and it still looks great!

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

I was not in the mood for powder blue. When the sun is shining I want bright colors!

Finally I chose Biocura (Aldi Nord) Taubenblau (that's German for powder blue). Ha, the name is a match! I got this polish in a swap with the lovely IG@lackverliebt.

Taubenblau has a good formula and was opaque in two coats that dried quickly. A delicate shimmer is slightly visible. Sadly I had a few bubbles on my nails but that was because of my own impatience and not the fault of the polish.

Shell We Dance is a sheer milky white pinkish nail polish. I am wearing three thin coats. The first coat needed a longer drying time but the other coats dried faster. The polish looks neat and fresh. The formula is smooth. Only the very wide brush shocked me at first. But application with that wide brush was easier and faster than I thought.

For a while I thought I wouldn't need any polish from the Resort Fling Collection. But then I had to have Find Me An Oasis and now I fell spontaneously in love with Resort Fling ;-)

To my surprise - and joy - I discovered that Resort Fling is a jelly nail polish. I own only a few jelly polishes and am always glad to add a few more to my collection. The polish is salmon with a hint of pink. Very fresh and summerlike with tanned skin! I am wearing three coats and had problems with little bubbles on the dry polish. That happens often to me with Essie polishes. Otherwise application was easy and the polish dried quickly.

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Deckkraft: 2-3 Schichten

Haltbarkeit: gut

Konsistenz: geschmeidig, aber BläschenwurfTrockenzeit: eher schnell

Besonderheit: Jelly LackBewertung: 4/5

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Opacity: 2-3 coatsDurability: goodTexture: smooth, but bubbles on the dry polishDrying time: rather short

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

I prefer white nail polishes with shimmer. I own only two of them. The first one is ORLY Au Champagne and today I will show you the second one: Misslyn Solo Artist. Both polishes are very much alike.

Solo Artist has a silky matte finish and pretty shimmer that is most beautiful in the sun. The polish is sheer and after three coats the nail line is still visible. But the fomula is nice and the polish dried rather fast.

This is my second nail polish from Misslyn (this is the first one) and I like the brand a lot.

A few weeks ago my husband gave me OPI Feelin' Hot-Hot-Hot! as a gift. He was not sure if I "have this color" in my collection. But I have to say I have no pink in my collection that is similar to this nail polish! Besides this is my first OPI nail polish that has not been ordered in the USA or England.

Feelin' Hot-Hot-Hot! is a beautiful warm pink that goes wonderful with my skin tone. The formula is rather thick and this polish could be opaque with one coat. Durabilty is very good, too.

I am totally happy with this nail polish! The color is perfect for summer and looks great on the feet, too!

When I have seen too many pictures of polishes from a Limited Edition on other blogs I lose interest in these nail polishes. That was the case with Holo In One. In February you could see the Holomania polishes everywhere. After wearing Plum Me Up Scotty it took a while until I wanted to wear a polish from that Limited Edition again. To be honest I only grabbed Holo In One because I needed a polish that is opaque in one coat and has a short drying time - and remembered the Holomania polishes.

Holo In One is opaque in one thin (!) coat and dries quickly. The wide brush makes it easy to apply the polish in no time. The durability is good because I had almost no signs of wear after two days.

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

For me the perfect grass green is Lime Basil from Revlon Parfumerie but I showed that polish recently. So I gave another grass green nail polish a second chance: Shake Your $$ Makers from essie. The name of that nail polish is great but it ends with that.

Shake Your $$ Makers shall be worn over a white base color and appear as a neon polish then. For me this is rather absurd. Either a nail polish has a neon glow or not. China Glaze has wonderful neon nail polishes that do not need a white base. But even a bright base color doesn't help this nail polish (have a look at my post from last year).

On the pics I am wearing three coats that are not opaque and do not at all look neon. Shake Your $$ Makers has a silky matte finish. The color is nice but this polish is too sheer and has nothing to do with neon.

Today's nail polish was a prize I got from a giveaway of Femi. And it's my first ANNY nail polish.

ANNY Trick Or Treat is a bright orange with a hint of red. The color is very pretty and I got a lot of compliments for it. There is shimmer visible in the bottle but it doesn't translate to the nails. I was surprised by the good formula; application was easy and the polish dried very quickly. Only the small brush in this mini bottle was hard to handle.